[OLPC_Boston] XO Activity and PyGTK Tutorials

[Patricia Greninger]

The following links may help.

- Pat

PyGTK 2.0 Tutorial
http://www.pygtk.org/pygtk2tutorial/index.html

The purpose of the activity handbook is to provide you with all the
information you need in order to get started with software development
for the OLPC XO.
http://www.olpcaustria.org/mediawiki/index.php/Activity_handbook

Making An Activity That Uses The Journal
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Beyond_Hello_World

Collaboration Tutorial - This tutorial focuses on activity sharing.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Collaboration_Tutorial

> Message: 1
> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 20:05:17 +0000
> From: wa1gsf at comcast.net
> Subject: Re: [OLPC_Boston] Studying Python
> To: Lee Cohen <lee.cohen at gmail.com>, olpc_boston at lists.laptop.org
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> "A Byte of Python" is a pretty good text.  The Python tutorials aren't bad either.  But there doesn't seem to be much tutorial about PyGTK and almost nothing about developing an Activity for Sugar except http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Sugar_Almanacand
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> A couple of basic things to remember: (1) indentation COUNTS (unlike almost every other language you might have programmed in);  (2) global variables are read-only inside a function unless you explicitly say you want write-access to the variable.
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> -------------- Original message --------------
> From: Lee Cohen <lee.cohen at gmail.com>
>
> > Hi All,
> > Looking forward to meeting you all...always nice to meet people who
> > share your enthusiasm.
> >
> > I won't be able to make todays meeting, but I was hoping you'd forgive
> > a newbie question:
> >
> > I'm on a Mac (leopard), and would like to begin teaching myself
> > Python, with the goal of eventually developing some apps for the XO.
> >
> > Any advice on where to start? I'm not a programmer. Decent HTML/css
> > experience, but that's it.
> >
> > Any pointers in the right direction would be much appreciated!
> >
> > Best,
> >
> > Lee Cohen
> > www.affectedclapping.net
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